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01x03 - Night of the Owl

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". Aired: September 20, 1962 – May 10, 1965.*
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It was a segment of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, this time, lasting an hour.

01x03 - Night of the Owl

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Good evening television consumers,

you will be very much interested in these

latest products of

the scientific mind.

They will be placed on

street corners, drug stores,

hotel lobbies, etc.

These are not telephone

booths, television booths.

No matter where you are,

you can slip into one of

these and by depositing

a dime can view three minutes

of this wondrous art form.

How often have you had to go to the corner

drug store on an errand and then never

learned how a play ended?

Now you need no longer

be chained to your home

set. In one city where

the television booth was

introduced, a gentleman

ventured from his home

for the first time since 1947.

His wife reports that he walked out

of the house with $50 worth of dimes

and has not been seen

since. Because so many people

are used to seeing

television from a horizontal

position, either slumped

down feet on the coffee

table or while lying in

bed, every other booth

is constructed with a

TV screen in the floor so

you can look at the

picture through your feet.

But we must begin our

show. If you have paid a

dime and one of your

three minutes turns out to

be this next one, you have my sympathy.

But we shall keep the dime.

Oh, darling, that will

be enough of that, dear.

Good morning. It is Mrs. Mallory,

isn't it? I'm afraid you don't know me.

I'm the speak to your

husband. Well, I'm expecting him

back any moment. Won't

you come in? Thank you.

Dear, that will be enough now, please.

You have a guest.

Won't you sit down, Reverend?

This, uh, this isn't Anne, is it? No,

this is our younger

daughter, Barbara.

Barbie, this is Reverend Locke.

Pleased to meet you, Reverend.

Delighted. Now, why don't you go

upstairs and put your dress on, dear,

because Daddy's gonna

be home in a minute.

Come here. Yes, ma'am.

No, no, how stupid of me.

Anne, Anne would be almost

14 by now, wouldn't she? Is

that why you're here,

Reverend? Is it about Anne?

As a matter of fact, it is. Is there some

problem? No, no, it's purely a personal

matter which, if you don't mind, I should

prefer to discuss with your husband.

Yes, of course. You

see, I was chaplain at

the Seabrook State

Prison in the Smokies many

years ago, and I had occasion to

know your adopted daughter's real father

before that wretched man's unhappy death.

Anne, you're late.

You know the stores close

early on Saturday, dear.

I'm sorry. Your

dress is on your bed.

Oh, why can't I go like this? Anne. All

right, Mother. And don't shout. Your father

has a visitor in his office. Who is it?

No one you know. Go ahead, hurry up.

What, what, my office? Your

visitor is a Reverend Locke.

Reverend, what did I do

now? Reverend Locke.

Sharming family, Ranger Mallory.

Oh, thank you. Sharming, yes.

I cannot tell you how

pleased I am, both to

meet you and to find

out that the daughter of.

unfortunate man is in such loving hands.

Oh, excuse me.

She's upstairs right

now, and she's going out

in a few minutes. I

think my wife explained

Yes, yes, yes. And

since the child remembers

nothing of the past, I

can see how important it

is to both of you that

she continue to believe

your little fabrication,

that she was adopted

by you at the age of

three after the peaceful

and entirely normal demise

of her mother and her father.

I tell you, it's

remarkable that a child

of such a tragedy should

be so happy and so normal.

Why? Well, your wife did

mention a few visits to a Dr. Holt.

Well, that had to do

with her schoolwork.

My wife explained that

too. Yes, but a psychiatrist?

Just because of some

minor anxiety or a future

scholarship? Or perhaps

there was something more?

Look, Reverend, this is a

kind of a personal matter.

Oh, is it mine, mine,

mine? No, Anne is a

perfectly normal child. She

has a brilliant mind, very brilliant.

She has a desire to excel in

everything she does, but she blames herself

if she's not 100% perfect in everything.

Yes. She demands

too much of herself, but

Dr. Holt says that these

are symptoms of things

that are essentially

good. Your vehemence in

her defense is very

touching, Mr. Mallory.

Still, it must be a source of great

worry to you, the thought that this child

might turn out to

be like her father.

Well, it's a stupid thing

to say. Perhaps, but then,

you see, I happen to know a good deal about

psychiatry. It's very useful in my work,

and I'm sure Dr. Holt must have warned

you of the extreme danger to a child,

especially such an

emotional child, if she

were to learn the truth

about her real parents,

and how they died. Well, Reverend, I don't

like your manner for a clergyman, you

Ah, but then, you see, I

am not really a clergyman.

No, actually, I am a businessman,

and I am here on a matter of business.

What business? Blackmail.

I don't know what stupid

idea you've got in your head.

I think the state police will

know what to do with you.

Please, don't make the mistake

of thinking I am stupid, Mr. Mallory.

Blackmail is my profession.

You surely don't think I would

have come here like

this unless I'd taken some

precautions first. I

think perhaps I'd better

introduce you to my

associate before you do

anything rash or associate.

There is, as you know,

a telephone booth in

the picnic area at Lookout

Point, which is visible

from this window.

I shall now dial that booth. When

it rings, then my associate, Mr.

Parker, will emerge from

the booth, signal twice

toward us, and then

disappear into the forest.

There.

You see? You haven't the faintest idea

what he looks like or where to find him,

and he has his instructions.

Now, if anything should happen to me, then.

he will do very quietly and anonymously. He

will do what I shall be forced to do unless

you and I can come to an understanding.

Now, shall we have our little chat?

What do you want?

Six thousand dollars by Monday night.

Six thousand.

Oh, I realize you're a little shocked, but.

it's really not so

terrible as all that.

See, I happen to know

that you have a savings

account for the children,

and any small difference

in the amount can be

made up with a bank loan.

using this house as security. What

can you do? You can either call the police

or you could k*ll me,

but either way, you will

utterly destroy your

precious little Anne,

because there's always Mr. Parker. He's

an unhappy young man. He's almost vicious.

I'm afraid he might take a certain

pleasure in telling the child that

her real father bludgeoned

her mother to death

in a drunken rage and

then hanged himself.

I can hear him now. Little girl, your

father was a m*rder*r and a suicide.

To me, it is some of him in you.

All her life, she'll wonder, am I

insane like my real son?

Can I come in?

What do you want? I'm sorry, Daddy.

I thought No, I'm still here, my dear,

but I very much wanted to meet you.

Now, this is Anne, isn't it?

Yes. Your father and I have been

having a little chat about old times.

I didn't mean to barge in, Daddy,

but I'm looking for my tray of test tubes.

You didn't see them all around, did he?

I haven't seen them, no, no, no.

Anne, we're late.

Go on, baby, your mother's waiting. Hurry.

Next time, when you're not in such a hurry,

perhaps we can have a little talk about,

what, about science.

I hear you're a very brilliant student.

Goodbye, Daddy. Goodbye, baby.

Goodbye, Reverend. Goodbye, my dear.

Charming. She adores you,

and you quite obviously adore her.

You'd move heaven and

earth to save her from pain.

Surely $6,000 is a very small

amount to pay for her future happiness.

Surely. But it wouldn't stop there, would

it? You'd beat us again year after year.

No, no, no, that kind of blackmailer

invariably winds up in prison.

It's against my principles, Mr. Mallory.

Once I receive the money,

Mr. Parker and I will move on to

Fresher Fields out of your life forever.

I see. And I take your word for that, huh?

Unfortunately.

Well, I'm not going to. I'm not

going to take your word for anything,

and I'm going to see she's protected

from you and your associate forever.

Don't be naive,

Mr. Mallory. What about her

school friends, her

playmates, her neighbors?

You know, it doesn't

take very much.

Just one or two anonymous

telephone calls or letters.

You know what gossips

these small-town people are.

How long do you think it'd be before the

poor child knew the whole morbid story?

Now, Monday night,

8 o'clock, you will walk

slowly from this house

to the picnic ground.

You will wait there by the telephone booth.

When it rings,

a voice will tell you exactly

where in the forest to meet me.

Now, you'll have the money in $10

and $20 bills wrapped in brown paper.

Now, no marked bills and no

futile efforts to contact the police.

I worked this out very

carefully, Mr. Mallory.

And if you deviate from my instructions

in any way, I shall know it immediately.

I won't be there.

You'll be there with the money.

Good day, Mr. Mallory.

Oh, dear.

Darling.

Oh, a great deal. We're gonna

have Daddy let the chickens burn.

Mother, if you'd let me fix the tower on

the oven, it never would have happened.

Miss Know-It-All, where's my

tray of test tubes, you little thief?

Jim, you let the chickens burn.

What happened? Did you fall asleep?

No.

It went off. Did you even hear it?

Guess this just isn't my day.

Oh, well, I'll take some steaks

out of the freezer. That'll solve it.

Hey, hey, is something wrong?

You tell me where they are.

Mommy, mommy, she twisted my arm.

She hid my test tubes.

Ann, I told you not to touch her.

If you think she's done

something wrong to you,

you're supposed to

come to me or your father.

You understand? Yes, mother.

Barbie, did you take her test tubes?

She can't take a joke.

What did you do with them, Barbie?

They're in the freezer.

The freezer?

Oh, it's ruined now.

The whole experiment is ruined.

You dumb little

Ann, don't talk to your sister like that.

Now, I want you to

apologize to her right now.

I'm sorry.

My arm still hurts.

Will you stop it, all of you?

Please, just stop it.

Now, you see, you've upset

your father with your fighting.

I want you to apologize to each other.

I'm sorry, Barbie.

I'm sorry, mother.

I'm sorry, daddy.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Ann, baby.

Barbie, go put some baked potatoes

in the oven for mommy, please.

Yes, mommy.

Go to a gym.

You're the only one she'll

talk to when she gets like this.

Right. Linda.

Yes?

I have to talk to her.

Talk to you when we can.

I'll tell you when dinner's ready.

Hydrogen plus water react to yield

sodium hydroxide plus hydrogen gas.

I looked at it for the first time

just now and I already know it.

Just like that.

Aren't you proud of me?

I know all that and I don't know anything.

I don't know how to be good or

kind or how to make people happy.

I don't want to hurt Barbie ever.

I love her and mother, but something

inside of me just, I don't know.

And, and I made you angry too, daddy.

Yes, yes, yes.

This afternoon when you were talking to

the reverend, I didn't mean to, but I did.

It just seems that nothing

I do or I don't know.

It's just not simple like, like this.

I love you, daddy.

I love you too.

Right now I'm starving to death too.

Let's go help your

mother, huh? Come on.

Six thousand dollars.

That's the most ridiculous

thing I ever heard.

Do you mean he actually

sat there and said this to you?

What did you do?

I didn't do anything.

It's the horrible part of it.

Well, it seems so weird that he

just sat there calm and smiling.

Jim, Jim, you don't, you don't

really think he'd tell Ann, do you?

I think he would, I'm sure of it.

Did you call her, please?

How could I have to

what he tried to do to Ann?

But Jim, we have to.

We can't cope with this ourselves.

I've been hammering at this

thing in my mind for hours.

Of course, I want to go

to the police, but we can't.

They can help us.

They can, they can tell us what to do.

Jim, they handle hundreds of

these blackmail cases every year.

Not like this one.

Jim, I know how you feel about Ann.

They have never handled anybody like Locke.

He's thought of everything.

They can at least advise us

it can't do any harm, can it?

Once we tell anybody about

Ann, who knows where it'll end.

Police gossip, a tip to the newspapers.

But we wouldn't have to

tell them about Ann's father.

We could just say that

some stranger named

Locke is blackmailing

us, and leave it at that.

You can't just, I don't know,

maybe you're right, Amy.

That's all we can do.

Not right now, tomorrow in the morning.

Jim, he said Monday night

we don't have that much time.

I know that, I've got to think.

Look Jim, don't take it out on me.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

You're right about the police.

I don't want to be right or wrong, Jim.

I just want us to find some

way out of this nightmare.

No, that's as close as

I can come to Locke's

appearance, but he's

got a long thin face.

I'm sorry to bore you with all

this identification routine, Jim.

At least you know our man has no

previous arrest for blackmail in this area.

You have no idea what his

accomplice Parker looks like.

You know, there's a

chance if we pick Locke up,

that Parker will give it up as a bad

job and hightail it out of the state.

Chance, Hank, I can't take any chances.

Well, then we'll have to

pick them both up together.

Be kind of tough.

This guy's smart, he's clever.

Jim, money's involved.

They'll have a rendezvous set up somewhere

for tomorrow night or soon afterwards.

Now, if you're willing to

keep that appointment,

give him a packet of counterfeit bills,

I'm sure that we can zero in on Locke.

Follow him until he joins Parker

and pick them both up together.

Well, sure, I'm willing

to do anything, but

Well, what if he suspects

he's being followed?

We're not exactly amateurs at this job.

I know that, Hank, but have you

ever tried to track anybody in a forest?

We have quite an effective

field communication system.

Similar to your walkie-talkie,

but less conspicuous.

Our men will move into

your forest area early in

the afternoon, as if they're

one of your fire crews.

They'll fade off into the brush

one at a time and wait for night.

When one of them spots

Locke, he'll radio the others.

Each one will pick him up and turn.

Buy radio without moving

until he leaves the forest.

Then he'll put a normal tail on him.

It's awful complicated.

It'd be so easy for something to go wrong.

Look, Jim, we've taken your story in faith.

You won't even tell us why

you're being blackmailed.

We've accepted that up until now.

Now, the least you can do in return

is let us handle our job our way.

But how can you be sure?

We can't be sure about anything.

We'll do our best,

that's all I can promise.

Keep looking back toward the phone booth.

You sure you didn't make

a mistake in the time?

Eight o'clock sharp.

Hank, I couldn't forget that.

It's 8 25 now.

Any other outdoor phone booth in this area?

No, mile and a half from here,

Long Creek Camping Area.

This is the one he meant.

You're sure? Yeah, I'm sure.

Look how much it meant.

Maybe he could have spotted one of them.

Take it easy, Jim.

Give him a few more minutes.

Hello.

Mallory, you're a fool.

Get rid of your state police, friend.

Go home, wait there.

You'll hear from me.

This is your last chance, Mr. Mallory.

Wait a minute, look.

Was it him? He hung up.

Jim, how did it go?

Mommy, I want you.

He didn't show.

I saw her right through the police trap.

Mommy.

Oh, Barbie has an earache.

I'll be right there, dear.

Where's Anne?

She's reading to Barbie.

I'm gonna pay him off.

Police can't protect us.

Jim, the $6,000 won't be the end of it.

There isn't any other way.

Without even consulting me?

Without consulting you now.

I'm so confused.

You make me feel so guilty.

I'm sorry.

If there was just some other way.

Jim, why don't we tell her ourselves?

No.

Then it wouldn't matter what Locke did.

And we destroy her.

Can't you see that?

Look, Jim, I love Anne

too, but will destroy

us as a family if we

pay that terrible man.

Jim, why don't we try the police just once

more and tell them about Anne's father.

It will at least give them a

lead on Parker and Locke.

We've been all through that.

We can protect her.

How?

Lock her in her room?

She has to live, doesn't she?

Go to school, see the other kids.

You know how cruel children can be.

I know, I know, Jim.

Remember what Dr. Holt said.

This is a particularly

vulnerable time for her.

Now, maybe if she was a little bit

older, we could risk it, but not now.

Stop hammering at me.

Can't you understand what a

thing like this would do to her?

Why do you always

put her first? Hello.

Valerie, did you

enjoy your little wait?

You're very silent tonight.

Is that because you finally learned

the state police can't help you? All right.

Tell me where and when

to meet you at the money.

You're late.

Where's the package?

The bank won't let me have

the money until tomorrow.

You're lying.

I'm not lying, I just

don't hand you $6,000.

I've got more time.

I want the money now.

I'll have it for you in the morning.

I promise you now, it's the best I can do.

Every extra second

means more danger for me.

I ought to tell that stupid gawky

little brat of yours just out of spite.

Much to do.

Now, now, now, now.

One more chance.

I'll have phone instructions.

And, Mallory, we got an agreement.

Tomorrow morning, then

I'll be out of your life forever.

You say one word to her, I'll k*ll you.

Yeah.

I'll k*ll you.

When you jump, boy, you think

somebody's fixing to k*ll you.

Oh, you're drinking again, you fool.

I told you to stay at the motel.

What if the police were to find out?

You know something, boy, I don't

give a soft yawn about no police.

You're my man.

And I ain't about to let

you skip out of me now.

Where is it?

Can't get the money out of

the bank till tomorrow morning.

Boy, you ain't a very good liar.

Now, where you hiding it?

I'm not hiding it.

All right, just for that.

Old Odie's liable to keep all the money.

I mean, after all, I'm the one to stick

John to Mallory and that little anagirl.

You fool.

I tell you, he didn't bring the money.

You know something, boy?

I'm getting mighty tired of you, Colby.

Where is it, boy?

Boy, where is it?

I'm waiting, boy.

I'm waiting.

Huh?

Boy, where is it?

Boy.

Wake up, boy.

Our story will continue in a few moments.

Just now, we must observe the

quasi-folk ritual of the station break.

Actually, the station break was

designed for a very useful purpose.

It keeps the two halves of a show

from bumping into one another.

I hate to break this to you, but

the opinions expressed during

the past two minutes do not

represent those of our sponsor.

We have yet to hear from him.

However, following that, we shall

have the second half of Night of the Owl.

I won't need the smoke jumpers.

You better leave Timmons up there.

b*mb that crown fire south of the tower.

Here comes Jim now.

I'll get back to you.

Gotta raise you down

below, you old smoke eater.

Backfire's got it wicked up north.

How's it here?

Well, we got a line hacked

out southwest of the cliff.

She ought to hold her.

The air control's got the whole fur slope.

The wind's just, we're in trouble.

How long we wet down the south break, huh?

I'm going back in with these fellows

as soon as they get their breath.

I'll be right with you.

Well, this is where she started, and

there's the poor devil that started her.

Burned himself up, most likely.

Lord, preserve us from careless people.

Yeah.

What's the matter, Jim?

You know him? Yeah.

Yeah, I know him.

You must be dog-tired,

went with no sleep all night.

Then I guess you fellows

are used to it, this fire weather.

Yeah.

Have a tough time getting this

one under control? Nah, I'm not.

Better eat it first.

Mind if I ask you a few more questions?

Mallory was nice enough

to come down here

and give us a complete

statement right away.

I don't think we should keep

him from his bed any longer.

All right.

I just talked to the coroner, Captain.

You were right in

assuming it was m*rder, Jim.

Locke was strangled.

The concussions, evidence of a struggle,

all point to an act born of great anger.

Must have been quite a shock to you,

and a relief when you saw that body.

What makes you think

that Parker k*lled Locke?

Who else?

Too bad you don't know more about him.

I told you all I could, Hank.

Not much to go on, is it?

You say that you saw him on Saturday.

You say that Locke talked about him.

This seems to be about

all we know about the man.

So far, he's just a name,

sort of will-of-the-wisp.

It might help if you told us now

why you're being blackmailed.

Hank, I told you I can't.

I'm sorry.

Jim, a man's been m*rder*d.

You're withholding relevant information.

I think we've had enough

for one night, Lieutenant.

Now look, let's just get

it over with now, huh?

This eight o'clock meeting you

had, how long were you with Locke?

Couple of minutes, that's all.

Where'd you go after

leaving him, straight home?

No, I was upset.

I wanted to think.

Where'd you go?

Set up in the hill in back of the house.

And after that, I went inside

and the phone rang about the fire.

What time was that?

Well, you know what time I was.

It was around nine.

What were you so upset about?

Look, what do you want me to say?

I was upset because I k*lled Locke, huh?

Did you k*ll him?

Yes, in my mind.

A hundred times, I wanted to.

But I didn't.

Are you trying to tell me

this is what disturbs you?

The thought that you might

have been a m*rder*r?

That's all, Mallory.

Sorry, we've cried your Patience.

You've been very cooperative.

Still, after we've done a little looking

around, we may want to talk to you again.

Sinus.

No, I don't.

Annie!

Annie!

You had a nightmare.

Why aren't you in school?

I'm home already.

You slept all day.

Want me to rub your

forehead with witch Hazel?

No.

You take care of me

when I have a bad dream.

Now I can take care of you.

I'm fine now.

You're worried.

It has something to do with me, hasn't it?

Oh, it doesn't have

anything to do with you.

Ann, did you wake your father up?

I was awake already.

Darling, why don't you go finish

your homework? I'm finished.

Hello?

Yes, but daddy wants some privacy.

Go on, dear.

Oh, sorry.

Who? It's O.

D. Parker, boy, that's who.

Now listen, boy, and listen good.

I need a thousand quick.

That's also going to cost you

now one thousand green ones,

and I'm going to keep

my big mouth shut, yeah?

What do you want me to do?

Put the money in an envelope.

As soon as it gets dark, bring

it around to the picnic ground.

Big old trash can chained to a tree.

And stash the cash under

the trash, huh? And then get.

All right.

And no hijinks, boy.

I'm picking it up in my own sweet time.

If I smell a cop, that's it.

I mean your little Annie girl's

going to wish she'd never been born.

Yeah?

Yes.

Parker?

He cut the price to a thousand.

He wants it tonight.

Well, all we'll have

to do is tell the police,

and they'll set a trap for him.

He's not that much of a fool.

He's not telling anyone

he can pick up the money.

It might be days.

Well, they can't.

They can wait him out.

They don't even think there is a Parker.

I've got to prove him wrong.

He'll go right on thinking I k*lled Locke.

I'll have to do it myself.

Go it alone.

Wait him out and bring him in.

But Jim, you can't.

He's desperate.

He's k*lled a man already.

Oh, Jim, there must be some other way.

There isn't any other way, Linda.

Whoo!

Whoo!

Whoo!

Whoo!

Whoo!

Whoo!

Come on, drop it.

I'm pointing a .38 right at you.

I'll climb down here.

Come on.

Hey, what you gonna do

if I don't come down, huh?

You gonna sh**t me

out of this tree? Huh, huh.

Might just call

that m*rder, boy.

Hey, I know you're gonna

come up here after me, huh?

Yeah, just me and you all by our

own selves in this big bad forest.

You better get along home,

Ranger boy, before it's too late.

All right, down.

Make me, Ranger boy.

Just try and make me.

Gonna be a long wait.

Hey, how long you figure that

flashlight's gonna hold out, huh?

Daddy?

Stay back there, honey.

Stay there.

Don't move.

Daddy, I tried to follow you.

Don't move, you.

Honey, you run home, tell your

mother to call the state police.

Have her say I'm up here with Parker.

You understand? Yes, Daddy.

Annie girl, you make one little move.

I'm gonna k*ll your daddy.

Don't believe him, honey.

I'm pointing a g*n right at him.

Now run.

She don't want to

see her little old daddy

laying dead on the ground,

do you, Annie girl? Shut up.

Go on, Annie.

Don't you see she

can't move, boy?

She's too scared of what

her old cousin Odie might do.

That's right.

I'm your second cousin,

twice removed, Annie girl.

Daddy, what's he Honey,

will you get out of here, please?

Yeah, I was just a little

old teenager in the Smokies

when that terrible thing

happened to your real pawn mom.

Shut up, shut up.

You won't k*ll you.

You ain't gonna k*ll

me in front of her, boy.

I mean, that poor old gal's

got enough to live down.

Daddy, what's he talking about?

Annie, I told you to get out of here.

Now go on.

Daddy?

Your real papa k*lled your real mama.

He k*lled her dead with a kindling axe.

Then he hung himself in prison.

Daddy! Honey.

Annie!

Daddy!

Jim, I couldn't get Lieutenant

Ames, but I did speak to the sergeant.

Jim, what happened?

I k*lled him.

They'll think I k*lled both of them.

I'll lock Ann Parker.

Jim, what are we gonna do?

Nothing to do but wait.

Where's Ann? She's upstairs.

She knows, doesn't she?

I tried to explain to her about the

blackmail and those two awful men.

She didn't even cry.

And she finally told me

about calling the state police.

But I

You go up to her, I can't talk to her now.

Please.

She needs you more now than

she ever needed you before.

If I were 13, and this had happened

to me, I'd want you to be with me.

Because you're the

gentlest man in the world.

Oh, no.

Oh, oh, oh, Daddy, you're all right.

Oh, Daddy, I was so afraid.

Oh, Daddy.

Listen, I don't know

what happened out there.

I don't want to talk about it.

You have to.

Come on, come on.

You got away from that terrible

man, and that's all that matters.

Well, honey, what he said about

your real mother and father, that

I'm sorry, Daddy.

I, I just feel so sad for them.

I wish they could have

had a happy life like us.

And I've been thinking, Daddy,

about how much you and Mother must

love me, and how much you loved me then.

I mean, to want to

take into your home a

little girl whose parents

died, like he said.

When you first told me I was adopted,

you said how special I was.

Because you and Mother chose me.

I never felt special.

Until now, Daddy.

Jim.

Lieutenant Ames is downstairs.

Tom Parker, where you left him, Jim?

Had a man watch in your

house that ordered us to phone

in for help rather than

follow you into the forest.

Got there as soon as we could,

but I'm afraid we were a little bit late.

Yeah.

Yeah, I k*lled him, Hank, and I k*lled him.

A man like Parker

takes a lot of k*lling, Jim.

He was a little of the

worst beware when he

found him, but right now

he's alive and kicking.

He knows he's going to

have to stand trial for m*rder.

Wasn't too hard to get a confession once

we found Locke's cigarette case on him.

So, about all we need from you is a statement

about what went on out there tonight.

He just stopped by the office sometime.

Hank.

Thanks.

I knew it would have

been easier for you if

I'd have thought you're

away from the start.

Linda?

I, I, I have to tell my wife.

Linda! Linda!

You remember my mentioning the gentleman

who disappeared with 50 dollars in dimes.

It saddens me to relate

that he became stuck in

a television booth where

he eventually succumbed.

Fortunately, he had

deposited all his money so

that the set will be on

for the next 24 hours.

I know he would have wanted it that way.

Next week I shall return

with another story, scenes

of which will be visible

after the following.